Title :
Netra3D: Android Application with Affordances of Tablet Computers
Author :
Sahasrabudhe, Sameer ; Ayer, Nitin ; Bhawar, Pooja ; Chaurasia, Ruchi ; Swarnkar, A. ; Sharma, Himani ; Srivastava, M. ; Vijay, Rakshita ; Jogu, Ravikumar ; Mora, Sumanth Kumar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Abstract :
Rise in usage of handheld computers, has seen adaptation of existing content to make it usable on tablet computers. However, there is a lack of consideration about the tablet affordances in creating new content. We present a study, of one such application for e-Learning, created using the affordances of the tablet computers. The topic is from biology, explaining the internal structure of human eye. The 3D model is created using Blender and the game logic is added using Unity3D. Specific interactions such as maneuvering the tablet to rotate the eye model are added to this application, in order to find out the usability of this feature. Preliminary user test confirms that the addition of this interaction is found engaging by the students.
Keywords :
Android (operating system); biomedical education; computer aided instruction; computer animation; eye; graphical user interfaces; medical computing; notebook computers; 3D model; Android application; Blender framework; Netra3D; Unity3D; biology topic; e-learning; eye model rotation; game logic; handheld computers; internal human eye structure; tablet computer affordances; tablet maneuvering; user test; Androids; Engines; Games; Humanoid robots; Solid modeling; Three-dimensional displays; Usability; Blender; Unity 3D; handheld devices; maneuvering; science education; structure of human eye; tablet computers; usability studies;
Conference_Titel :
Technology for Education (T4E), 2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Clappana
DOI :
10.1109/T4E.2014.41
